...I didn't do it! I never touched the resistors! (I had a discussion about this with my friends, we found out that I'm the only person that's a big enough geek to steal from radio shack)
Don't feel bad, sad thing is sometimes I'm that way to.
Thanks for offering to help with the clock that you posted, the problem is like I said; this isn't always going to be plunged in. It may go for months without power, so an old alarm clock with battery backup built in would be perfect for me. I saw an old radio in the electronics shop where I get so smarts,s... [looks around nervously] I was going to see if they would be willing to sacrifice the IC that was used for the display. I think that they already took everything that they wanted from it (IE: speaker, display, transformer, you know big stuff) I'm hoping that they would be willing to give up just the timer IC and I will rebuild the circuit. It's a start towards what I want to do.
The other thing is, I could make the clock out of some counter IC's like the 4029 and 4511 and just have a precision 1 second clock pulse going into the clock pins. Do you know how to make a precision clock?